blockhouse

How To Use blockhouse In A Sentence

• Captain Messenger and a small force of men built a new blockhouse and a little military settlement gradually grew around it, including a hospital, school and store.
• A painter, René Duchez, tucked into his blouse a copy of the detailed instructions for building blockhouses - exactly what dimensions of concrete and of reinforcing rods were to be used - and took it away.
• Schenley Park with thoroughness, investigated several of the "inclines" which carried passengers from the river level to the top of the heights above, motored among the handsome residences and ended, on the way to the station, with a flying visit to the old blockhouse which is all that is left of Port Pitt. Ethel Morton's Enterprise
•     The throne room of the blockhouse was a rough, frontier affair, The Brothers' War
• Anticipating the attacks, de Lattre had strengthened the Red River valley with hundreds of cement blockhouses and new airfields.
• The combat and direction centers were housed in huge concrete blockhouses, hardened to withstand overpressures of only five pounds per square inch.
• All five of them ducked inside the claustrophobic blockhouse. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
• Schenley Park with thoroughness, investigated several of the "inclines" which carried passengers from the river level to the top of the heights above, motored among the handsome residences and ended, on the way to the station, with a flying visit to the old blockhouse which is all that is left of Port Pitt. Ethel Morton's Enterprise
• Suddenly it seemed that a majority wanted peace, a majority wanted to live in a country, not in a blockhouse. LOADED QUESTIONS
• The blockhouse will be the first spot assailed should there really be an attack; and it's no 'well provided for a siege, that must be allowed. Pathfinder; or, the inland sea